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U.S.A.: DELL PUBLISHING CO., 1960 A DELL MYSTERY. COVER PAINTING BY HARRY BENNETT. JOHNNY INVESTIGATES A WEIRD CULT IN THE MURDEROUS NEW ORLEANS UNDERWORLD. "THE WOMAN'S BODY UNDULATED. HER MOTIONS BECAME FRANTIC. WILDLY, SHE TORE OFF HER CLOTHES. THE OTHERS FOLLOWED. NUDE, THEY DANCED TO THE FRENZIED DRUM." GREAT STORY! Kane was brought up in Brooklyn, New York. He attended St. John's Law School but had to leave his studies to support his spouse and newborn child. He worked as a columnist for The New York Press, as a letterer for the New York Trade Newspapers Corporation, for the New York Journal of Commerce, and in public relations, particularly as an advocate for the liquor industry. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

ASHLAND, KY: JESSE STUART FOUNDATION, 2010 Jesse Hilton Stuart (August 8, 1907 ¿ February 17, 1984) was an American writer who is known for writing short stories, poetry, and novels about Southern Appalachia. Born and raised in Greenup County, Kentucky, Stuart relied heavily on the rural locale of Northeastern Kentucky for his writings.[1] Stuart was named the Poet Laureate of Kentucky in 1954.[2] He died at Jo-Lin nursing home in Ironton, Ohio, which is near his boyhood home. TERRIFIC STORY ABOUT A WONDERFUL MAN AND WRITER. WRITTEN BY JAMES GIFFORD WHO HAS SPENT OVER 25 YEARS MANAGING THE JESSE STUART FOUNDATION. GIFFORD'S KNOWLEDGE ALONG WITH ALL THE WONDERFUL PICTURES MAKE THIS A WONDERFUL READ. Near Fine condition with an inscription signed by Gifford. DARK BLUE BOOK WITH GOLD PRINT ON SPINE. NICE LOOKING DUST JACKET. 1776 BOOKSTORE, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

USA: BENZINGER BROTHERS, 1899 RARE BOOK, NICE LOOKING RICH BROWN COVER, GOLD DESIGN AND PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. CLEAN AND TIGHT THROUGHOUT, FRONTISPIECE VERY NICE ARTWORK. 59 STORIES, QUITE ENTERTAINING INFORMING AND INSPIRATIONAL. The Eucharist (also known as Holy Communion and the Lord's Supper among other names) is a Christian rite that is considered a sacrament in most churches, and as an ordinance in others. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

NEW YORK: A.L. BURT COMPANY, 1908 VERY NICE DARK BLUE COVER, GOLD DESIGN AND PRINT SPINE. FRONTISPIECE A PICTURE OF PATRICK HENRY. FORMER OWNERS LABEL IN FRONT. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. FOR THE LOVER OF HISTORY AND UNITED STATES. 11 CHAPTERS WITH GREAT DETAIL. Patrick Henry (May 29, 1736 – June 6, 1799) was an American politician, planter and orator who declared to the Second Virginia Convention (1775): "Give me liberty, or give me death!" A Founding Father, he served as the first and sixth post-colonial Governor of Virginia, from 1776 to 1779 and from 1784 to 1786. A native of Hanover County, Virginia, Henry was primarily educated at home. After an unsuccessful venture running a store, as well as assisting his father-in-law at Hanover Tavern, he became a lawyer through self-study. Beginning his practice in 1760, Henry soon became prominent through his victory in the Parson's Cause against the Anglican clergy. He was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses, where he quickly became notable for… Read More

NEW YORK: AMERICAN HERITAGE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1973 THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL BOOK WITH NO INTERNAL MARKINGS, LEATHER ON THE SPINE, RED COVER, NICE DESIGN, RED WHITE BLACK SILVER DESIGN. WILL ROGERS PRINTED SIGNATURE INSIDE. FILLED WITH PICTURES THROUGHOUT. GREAT BOOK. Rogers, Will (William Penn Adair Rogers), 1879-1935, American humorist, b. Oolagah, Indian Territory (now in Oklahoma). In his youth he worked as a cowboy in Oklahoma, and after traveling over the world, he returned to the United States and worked in vaudeville as a cowboy rope-twirler, joking casually with the audience. He was an immediate success when he joined the Ziegfeld Follies in 1915. Rogers gained a wide audience, starring in more than 70 motion pictures, writing six books, appearing on dozens of radio broadcasts, and writing a popular syndicated newspaper column. His salty comments on the political and social scene made the "cowboy philosopher" widely known. A constant booster of airplane travel, Rogers made several long… Read More

New York: Random House, 1947 TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH QUATRAINS BY EDWARD FITZGERALD. A COMPLETE REPRINT OF THE FIRST EDITION AND THE COMBINED THIRD, FOURTH AND FIFTH EDITIONS, WITH AN APPENDIX CONTAINING FITZGERALD'S PREFACES AND NOTES. EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY LOUIS UNTERMEYER. THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL BOOK. RED AND BLACK COVER, GOLD DECORATIONS INSIDE WITH WONDERFUL ARTWORK THROUGHOUT. COLOR IS VERY NICE. SLIPCOVER IS IN VERY GOOD SHAPE SHOWING SOME WEAR. THIS BOOK WAS OWNED BY SOMEONE IN THE MILITARY- CHRISTMAS 1948 THEY WROTE NAMES OF MANY MILITARY PERSONEL ON INSIDE FRONT PAGE- COL., LT., CAPT.- ALSO INCLUDES GROUP SERVED IN. IN LOOKING IT UP SOME SERVED AND DIED IN WWII. The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Persia) is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his translation of a selection of poems, originally written in Persian and of which there are about a thousand, attributed to Omar Khayyám (1048¿1131), a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. A Persian… Read More

CHICAGO: A.C. MCCLURG & COMPANY, 1912 LIGHT GREEN COVER, ART PICTURE OF GLORIA KERR FRONT, BLACK PRINT FRONT AND SPINE, SOME WEAR AND FADING COVER, FORMER OWNERS NAME AND ADDRESS INSIDE FRONT. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. COPYRIGHTED IN GREAT BRITAIN. 19 CHAPTERS, VERY NICE ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT. VETY NICE BOOK, ROMANTIC STORY THAT IS VERY TOUCHING. FOR THE LOVER OF LIFE AND ROMANCE. HARRY KING TOOTLE BIRTH 19 Jun 1882 Saint Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri, USA DEATH 5 Mar 1961 (aged 78) Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, USA ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

NEW YORK: THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO., 1897 BEAUTIFUL DARK GREEN BOOK, NICE RAISED DESIGN ON COVER AND SPINE, GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE, UPPER EDGE OF PAGES HAVE GOLD COATING. CLEAN AND TIGHT, VERY GOOD SHAPE. INSCRIPTION IN FRONT WHERE GIVEN AS CHRISTMAS GIFT. WONDERFUL ARTWORK THROUGHOUT BY GARRETT. Kingsley, Charles, 1819-75, English author and clergyman. Ordained in 1842, he became vicar of Eversley in Hampshire in 1844. From 1848 to 1852 he published tracts advocating Christian socialism. These views were embodied in his first two novels, Alton Locke (1850) and Yeast (1851), both of which deal with contemporary social problems. In his subsequent novels, including Hypatia (1853), Westward Ho! (1855), and Hereward the Wake (1866), he used historical settings to communicate his ideas. Hypatia is an 1853 novel by the English writer Charles Kingsley. It is a fictionalized account of the life of the philosopher Hypatia.(Hypatia was a Greek philosopher and the daughter of another philosopher, Theon… Read More

BOSTON: Little, Brown and Company, 1890 BEAUTIFUL DARK GREEN BOOK, NICE RAISED DESIGN ON COVER AND SPINE, GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE, SLIGHT RIGHT LOWER CORNER BUMP, UPPER EDGE OF PAGES HAVE GOLD COATING. COUPLE INK DOTS VERY FRONT AND BACK INSIDE NO OTHER MARKINGS INSIDE. NICE AND TIGHT, VERY GOOD SHAPE. NO DATE, ESTIMATE CIRCA 1890'S. Kingsley, Charles, 1819-75, English author and clergyman. Ordained in 1842, he became vicar of Eversley in Hampshire in 1844. From 1848 to 1852 he published tracts advocating Christian socialism. These views were embodied in his first two novels, Alton Locke (1850) and Yeast (1851), both of which deal with contemporary social problems. In his subsequent novels, including Hypatia (1853), Westward Ho! (1855), and Hereward the Wake (1866), he used historical settings to communicate his ideas. Hypatia is an 1853 novel by the English writer Charles Kingsley. It is a fictionalized account of the life of the philosopher Hypatia.(Hypatia was a Greek philosopher and the… Read More

NEW YORK: Charles Scribners Sons, 1899 NICE LOOKING DARK BROWN COVER, WHITE DESIGN ON FRONT WITH ELEPHANT HEAD AND NAZI SYMBOL. WAS A SWASTIKA WITH THE ELEPHANT SYMBOLIZING HIS CONNECTION WITH INDIA. FORMER LIBRARY BOOK OF CARNEGIE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, NORMAL LIBRARY MARKINGS. TIGHT AND GOOD SHAPE. VERY INTERESTING BOOK ABOUT SOME OF KIPLING'S TRAVELS. From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches, Letters of Travel is a book containing Rudyard Kipling's articles about his 1889 travels from India to Burma, China, Japan, and the United States en route to England. Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( 30 December 1865 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in India, which inspired much of his work. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

Toronto, Canada: The Musson Book Company Limited, 1910 No date printed on book, but this poem was written by Kipling shortly after the death of King Edward VII in 1910. Kipling Eulogy.Unpaginated. Former owner name printed in front and owner library stamp in front. Purple book cover, gold print, design front, tight, 2 small pieces of paper tape between 2 pages, no markings, In back it indicates printed at the Edinburgh Press, 68 Old Bailey, London, E.C. Joseph Rudyard Kipling; 30 December 1865 ¿ 18 January 1936)[George Washington (February 22, 1732[b] – December 14, 1799) was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Appointed by the Continental Congress as commander of the Continental Army, Washington led Patriot forces to victory in the American Revolutionary War and served as president of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, which created and ratified the Constitution of the United States and… Read More

UNITED STATES: RAND MCNALLY & COMPANY, 1895 DARK GREEN TEXTURED COVER WITH GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE, LIGHT WEAR FRONT AND SPINE EDGES. FORMER OWNERS NAME MARKED THROUGH BY BLACK MARKER IN FRONT. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. NO DATE LISTED, CIRCA 1895. TERRIFIC COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES FROM ONE OF THE BEST AUTHORS OF TIME. Plain Tales from the Hills (published 1888) is the first collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. Out of its 40 stories, "eight-and-twenty", according to Kipling's Preface, were initially published in the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore, Punjab, British India between November 1886 and June 1887. "The remaining tales are, more or less, new." The title refers, by way of a pun on "Plain" as the reverse of "Hills", to the deceptively simple narrative style; and to the fact that many of the stories are set in the Hill Station of Simlathe "summer capital of the British Raj" during the hot weather. Not all of the… Read More

PHILADELPHIA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, 1874 VERY NICE LOOKING DARK BLUE COVERS, GOLD DESIGN AND PRINT SPINES. 510 PAGES AND 530 PAGES EACH BOOK. CLEAN AND TIGHT THROUGHOUT. VERY LIGHT FOXING IN FRONT AND BACK INSIDE COVERS OF Volume I. FRANCISCO PIZARRO FRONTISPIECE PICTURE VOLUME ONE, PEDRO DE LA CASCA, VICEROY OF PERU IS FRONTISPECE VOLUME II. WONDERFUL DETAIL AND INFORMATION AS ONLY PRESCOTT CAN WRITE. EACH BOOK DIVIDED INTO BOOK SECTIONS AND CHAPTERS. William Hickling Prescott (May 4, 1796 January 28, 1859) was an American historian and Hispanist, who is widely recognized by historiographers to have been the first American scientific historian. Despite suffering from serious visual impairment, which at times prevented him from reading or writing for himself, Prescott became one of the most eminent historians of 19th century America. He is also noted for his eidetic memory. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

NEW YORK: JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC., 1953 DARK GEEN COVER, GOLD PRINT AND DESIGN SPINE, FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT, NO OTHER INTERNAL MARKINGS, TIGHT, GOOD SHAPE. FORMULAS AND EXCELLENT DETAIL THROUGHOUT. Ludwig Frederick Audrieth (February 23, 1901 ¿ January 28, 1967) was a chemist, educator, and United States Army officer. He is known for his work on non-aqueous solvents. Audrieth was born on February 23, 1901, in Vienna, Austria. He was brought to the United States in 1902 and naturalized as a citizen in 1912. Professor of Chemistry at University of Illinois. KLEINBERG WAS PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

Cleveland, Ohio: AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR STEEL TREATING, 1929 NICE LOOKING DARK RED COVER, GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE, HEAVY, CLEAN AND TIGHT. FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT. GREAT DETAILBY KNOWLTON WHO WAS A METALLURGIST, FORT WAYNE WORKS OF THE INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER CO., AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR STEEL TREATING. PICTURES, GRAPHS, DRAWINGS THROUGHOUT WITH A GOOD INDEX IN THE BACK. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

PADERBORN, GERMANY: DRUCK UND VERLAG VON FERDINAND SCHONINGH, 1908 NICE LOOKING BOOK. TIGHT AND GOOD CONDITION. BLACK PIGSKIN, BLUE BANDS SPINE WITH GOLD PRINT. SLIGHT WEAR SHOWS FRONT COVER. HEAVY, TIGHT. FADED MARBLING ON PAGE EDGES. DICTIONARY OF FRENCH LANGUAGE IN GERMAN. FORMER UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN LIBRARY LABEL FRONT. ON FRONT PAGE WRITTEN IN INK-- RESEWN ON 3 TAPES, 52 SECTIONS (2 LEAVES EACH) BOUND IN PIGSKINS (3 BANDS). Gustav Carl Otto Körting (1845-1913) was a German philologist, whose specialty was focused on Romance languages and English. He was born in Dresden and taught there after four years of study at Leipzig (1863-67). He went to Münster in 1876 and in 1892 to Kiel as professor of Romance philology. In 1879 he became editor with Koschwitz of the Zeitschrift für neufranzösische Sprache und Litteratur and in the following year of Französische Studien. TERRIFIC PIECE OF HISTORY. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.